Trans fats, cigarettes, salt, soda, firearms, baby formula, Styrofoam, the list goes on and on. Yet even now, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg manages to indulge his personality disorder by finding new aspects of our lives to hyper-regulate. He has discovered that people enjoy listening to MP3 players through earbuds; hence Big Government must intervene. Barks Nancy Clark of the city’s bloated Health Department bureaucracy:

“With public [i.e., coercively financed] and private support, a public-education campaign is being developed to raise awareness about safe use of personal music players … and risks of loud and long listening.”

A quarter of a $million is to be frittered away chiding youth not to listen to their music so loud. As always, if the voluntary methods don’t work, involuntary means will quickly follow.

Bloomberg’s 2005 “Operation Silent Night” law cracked down on noise other people can hear; now he is going after noise that isn’t bothering anyone.

Like all of Bloomberg’s endless crusades against personal freedom, the earbud campaign is for his subjects’ own good. As C.S. Lewis wisely observed,

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Imagine trying to explain to the Founding Fathers how it is the government’s business how loud you listen to music that no one else can hear. Of course, statists will reply that they didn’t have iPods then, just like they didn’t have AR-15s.

New Yorkers in Staten Island and in Queens are still devastated and homeless from Hurricane Sandy, and Bloombutt has *earbuds* as his first priority ???
Can mayors be impeached for dereliction of duty ?

Sammie the troll, Bloomberg only cracked down on the Occupy freaks because it was getting to be November, and he knew if he firm’t finally put his foot down soon, the Occupiers would inevitably try and make a stink at one of the many major televised events NY hosts around that time of year (I.e. the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, the lighting of Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, etc.). He didn’t want those freaks making him look bad and hurting his city’s tourism industry during such an important time, so he did what any competent mayor would have done a month earlier: Give the freaks a well- deserved eviction notice. He only did it for his own purposes.

TIME magazine just got through writting a big gush filled issue about BLOOMJERK pushing for GUN CONTROL along with JOE the SCHMOE BIDDEN and a victim which are the only kind a leftists rag like SLIME MAGAZINE will interview

Time for Mr Bloomberg Potter to climb back into his carrage and ride back to his gloomy mansion on the hill where he can niff and snort at the rest of america and were cant wait still the day he drops dead

Imagine candidate Bloomberg at the podium: “Vote for me, New York…because I can tell you what size is the maximum size drink that is good for you and I will ban earbuds because those are bad for you, too. Only I am good for you. I am perfect. The perfect horses rear.”